India

Unless there is an accident along the way, although perhaps a more tactful thing to say would be a hiccup, Tata Motors of India looks all set to take over the ownership of Jaguar Cars, Coventry. Also Tata has just launched their super-low priced car, the Nano. The UK-based doomsayers got in a tizzy about it for a variety of reasons, the point they missed was that Tata is neither trying to appeal nor sell to them. Some of the comment was not so much environmental in nature but more old colonial disapproval of the the worst sort.